Garbage-pail.



No. 824,775. PATBNTED JULY 3, 1906 w. BLOBMBERQ GARBAGE SAIL;

APPLIGATIGR FILED MAB- 9, 1905.

WILLIAM BLOOMBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARBAGE-PAD...

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1906.

Application filed March 9,1935. Serial No. 249,297.

T0 at); whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BLOOMBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing in Brooklyn borough, city of New York, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful in rovements in Garbage-Pails, of which the ollowin is a specification.

his invention relates to garbage cans or pails. It often happens that pails set out upon the sidewalk to be collected are allowed to remain one or more days before the garbage-collector makes his rounds, and through accidents the pails are frequently upset and their contents become distributed about the lie. They are often upset y large do s, and even if not upset the animals frequent y succeed in transferringa considerable portion of the garbage from the pails to the sidewalk. To avoid the attacks of animals, it has been attempted to use loose covers but these usually are removed by the animals and lost and afford no protection. If the covers are made tight fitting, so that animals cannot remove them,it soon hap ens that owing to the rou h usage of the ai s at the hands of the gar age-collectors t e pails and covers become misshapen and no longer fit each other. Another serious objection to the use of covers is that in case the pail is heaped with garbage, as is often the case, the covers cannot be placed upon them at all.

The object of my invention is to overcome these and other ob'ections, and to that end I provide for the ar age-pail a cover having a deep skirt whic telesco es Way down over the body of the pail and 1s of such depth that even after the ail has been heaped up to the hi hest possibl d limit the bottom of the skirt stil has a suihciently full hold around the body of the pail. Moreover, the cover cannot be removed by animals nor by being tipped over, and all of the objections above noted are overcome.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1. is a sectional view of a garbage-pail provided with my improvements, the pail being shown heaped up with garbage to illustrate that the cover still has am is hold upon the pail. Fi 2 is an elevation of the pail and cover. ig. 3 is an elevation of the cover.

A garbage-pail usually consists of a cylindrica body 1, having a bottom 2. To the o posite sides of the pail are fixed ears 3. TE) these cars I attach the ends of a bail 4.

neighborhood to the annoyance of the pub.

The cover comprises a to 5 and a skirt 6 of ver great depth and fitting loosely over the par This skirt extends down far beyond the ears 3, and I provide in the skirt opposite recesses 7, which may be wide enough to slide readily up and down past the ears, while their bottoms are flared out, as at 8, to enable the cover to be readily directed down past said ears. To further facilitate the placing of the cover upon the pail, I provide upon the top thereof a handle 9, which is in line with said recesses, so thatthe user b setting said handle in line with the ears 3 Wil find that the cover will slip clown readily upon the pail. A wire 10 runs along the edges of the cover to stifien the same, the edges of the cover being rolled over said wire. The latter is continuous around the under edge of the cover following the edges of the recesses, which are also rolled over the wire. The cover is preferably made of a single piece of sheet metal, including both the body and the skirt, although Within the scope of the invention the top may be made in one piece and the skirt in one or more pieces and attached to the top. Preferably the skirt has a straight cylindrical form, so that it will alwa s fit upon the pail, even when the latter is st heaped up with garbage, as at A, Fig. 1.

One of the advantages of the invention lies in the difficulty of removing the cover from the pail. The cover must be drawn straight up in order to be removed. ThiS diffioulty is no objection to the user; but it absolutely prevents accidental removal of the cover by animals. Indeed, if the pail is accidentally upset and rolled about the cover does not come oil, and hence the danger of the garbage being spread about is eliminated. It will be seen that even when the pail is hea ed 11 to the utmost limit, as at Fig. 1, the s irt oi the cover still has a full and effective hold upon the pail. The ball 4 is made ofrelatively great height to clear the cover and hendle when in the Fig. 1 position.

Qther variations may be resorted to within the scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1 1. A garbage-pail havin eyes 11 on its opposite sides, a bail attache to sai eyes, and a cover formed with a loosely-fitting skirt of such great depth as to extend far below said eyes; said skirt having openings or cutaways upon its opposite sides to receive said eyes; said recesses cooperating with the eyes to prevent rotation of the cover, so that i it is impossible for the cover to be worked ofl' by the rolling about of the pail 3 the lower edges of the cover and the edges of the eyes being rollled over so as to stiffen the skirt.

2. A garbage-pail having eyes u on its opposite sides, a bail attached to sai eyes, and a cover having a skirt of great depth which telescopes down around the sides of said pail below said eyes; said cover having opposite recesses which receive said eyes, and a stiffening-wire extending along the lower edges of the cover and around the edges of said eyes; the edges of the cover rolled over said wire.

3. A garbage-pail having eyes upon its opposite sides, and a bail attached to said eyes, and a cover having a cylindrical skirt of great depth which telescopes down around the sides of said pail below said e es, said cover having 0 posite recesses whie 1 receive said e es, an a stiflenin -wire extendin aroun the lower edges 0 the cover an also along the edges of said recesses; the latter flaring at their lower portions so as to direct the cover over said eyes, and the edges of the cover rolled over said wire.

4. A garbage-pail having eyes upon its 0pposite sides, and a bail attached to said eyes, and a cover having a cylindrical skirt of great depth which telescopes down around the sides of said pail below said eyes; said cover having opposite recesses which receive said eyes, and a stiffening-wire extending around the lower edges of the cover and also along the edges of said recesses; the latter flaring at their lower portions so as to direct the cover over said eyes and the edges of the cover rolled over said wire; said cover having a handle thereon which extends across the cover in line with said recesses.

WILLIAM BLOOMBERG.

Witnesses:

B. C. STIOKNEY, BERTHA SonNIER. 

